Navel-gazing extravaganza

Bellydance superstars bring world music, movement to Red Bank

10:27 AM,
Nov. 9, 2012

Written by

Ed Condran
| For the Asbury Park Press

After Sting recorded his last huge hit, "Desert Rose,'' a dozen years ago, his longtime manager, Miles Copeland, was inspired.

Sting's song, which smacks of the Middle East, appealed to American music fans.

"After Sting had a lot of success with that song, it made me think," Copeland said while calling from his Los Angeles office. "If Americans liked that song, maybe there was something else from the Middle East they would like." ...